Category Archives: Pro-life

Washington Post Highlights Sebelius Flap at Georgetown

May 16, 2012 – 9:23 am

The Washington Post reports this morning on yesterday’s developments in what it terms the “already-boiling debate” over Georgetown University’s invitation to “pro-choice” HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to speak on commencement day (May 18). [Tell Georgetown to withdraw the invite to Sebelius - sign the petition at GeorgetownScandal.com] Taking note of statements put out by both the [...]

By Charlotte Hays | Also posted in Catholic Identity Policy, Contraception, Ex corde Ecclesiae, Jesuits, Strong Catholic Identity, Student Life, The Bishops, Uncategorized | Comments Off

ARCHBOLD: Students Against Religious Liberty

February 20, 2012 – 10:46 am

About 300,000 pro-lifers marched through the middle of our nation’s capitol last month with scant coverage in the mainstream media. But when a few college girls with a microphone kvetch that while they can afford to pay $50,000 per year to attend a Catholic college, they can’t afford condoms, you’ve got an instant media sensation. So [...]

By Matthew Archbold | Also posted in Campus News Opinion, Religious Liberty | Comments (9)

Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life Headlined by Archbishop Chaput

January 31, 2012 – 9:46 am

The Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life at Georgetown University took place on Sunday, January 22, with the goal of educating and connecting college and high school students from around the country on the day before the March for Life. At the conference, students had the opportunity to listen to leading voices in the pro-life movement, [...]

By CNS Staff | Also posted in Strong Catholic Identity, The Bishops | Comments (1)

And the Award for Most Students at the March for Life Goes to…

January 31, 2012 – 8:37 am

The Tower reports that students from The Catholic University of America comprised the largest contingent of students from any college at the March for Life last Monday, January 22.  From the report: Around 500 members of the CUA community stood on the steps of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on January [...]

By CNS Staff | Also posted in Abortion, Leadership and Governance, Strong Catholic Identity | Comments (4)

Catholics Protest Pro-Abortion Rights Speaker at Scranton

January 30, 2012 – 3:37 pm

On Saturday, about 150 Scranton-area Catholics protested the presence of a pro-abortion rights speaker on the campus of Jesuit-run University of Scranton, according to local newspaper reports here and here. The Times-Tribune article claims The Cardinal Newman Society organized the event, which was not true, as we do not generally organize or participate in local [...]

By CNS Staff | Also posted in Abortion, Catholic Identity Abuse, The Bishops, Uncategorized | Comments (13)

Inspiring Vid: Thomas Aquinas Students March for Life in San Francisco

January 27, 2012 – 3:21 pm

If you’re in need of a little shot of hope in the future, here’s your fix. Students at Thomas Aquinas College in California march for life in San Francisco of all places.

By CNS Staff | Also posted in Abortion, Strong Catholic Identity, Uncategorized | Comments Off

Franciscan Students Travel Overnight to March

January 17, 2012 – 10:32 am

Showing great commitment to the pro-life cause, over 400 students from the Franciscan University of Steubenville will climb onto a bus just before midnight on January 22,  bound for Washington, D.C. to participate in the 39th annual March for Life. And they won’t be alone because hundreds of independently traveling Franciscan students and alumni will be driving there as well. [...]

By CNS Staff | Also posted in Abortion, Strong Catholic Identity, Uncategorized | Comments (2)

Cardinal Burke on Secularism vs. the Church: “It Is a War.”

November 30, 2011 – 10:22 am

On the occasion of his first anniversary on the Sacred College of Cardinals, Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, one of the Catholic Church’s top U.S.-born clerics, used an interview with CNA to label secularism’s battle against the Church “a war” to which the solution is a “new evangelization” starting with faithful families, strong religious education and [...]

By CNS Staff | Also posted in Religious Liberty, Uncategorized | Comments (7)

Kreeft: Pro-Abort Catholics More Damaging than Sex Abuse Scandal

November 28, 2011 – 8:27 am

Boston College Professor and author Peter Kreeft told a group of 500 at the Bishop O’Connor Center in Madison that pro-abortion Catholics have done more damage to the Church than the sex abuse scandal, according to the Wisconsin State Journal. Kreeft’s speech was focused on whether Catholics could be liberals and quickly turned to the [...]

By CNS Staff | Also posted in Faculty, Uncategorized | Comments (27)

Students Display “Cemetery of the Innocents”

November 23, 2011 – 10:20 am

The Saint Thomas Students for Human Life erected crosses on the University of Saint Thomas campus in Minnesota as a way of commemorating the innocent lives taken by abortion in the United States, according to UST. The Students for Human Life club will display a “Cemetery of the Innocents,” a memorial for those who have lost their [...]

By CNS Staff | Also posted in Uncategorized | Comments (1)
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